STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2832

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2984

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2984 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE KIKALA-KEOKEA HOUSING REVOLVING FUND,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Kikala-Keokea housing revolving fund.

Over the years, the native Hawaiian residents of Kalapana on the island of Hawaii maintained a unique community promoting the native Hawaiian way of life. The continuation of this way of life, however, was threatened as a result of volcanic eruptions which eventually destroyed one of the last native Hawaiian settlements on the island.

In response to this tragedy, the Legislature, by Act 314, Session Laws of Hawaii 1991, provided relocation assistance to displaced residents of Kalapana by awarding long-term leases in the Kikala-Keokea homestead area. Subsequently, by Act 144, Session Laws of Hawaii 2001, the Legislature established the infrastructure development fund to finance the construction of infrastructure in the area and the Kikala-Keokea housing revolving fund to provide low-interest loans to Kikala-Keokea lessees for home construction. This measure appropriates funds to the Kikala-Keokea housing revolving fund to allow housing construction to begin.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the appropriation to an unspecified amount to facilitate further discussion;

(2) Changing its effective date from July 2, 2006, to July 1, 2006; and

(3) Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2984, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2984, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair